TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Manual Lunch Vs. Auto-Deducted Lunch
• Manual Lunch Requirement and Required Duration Vary by Company
• Take/Waive Manual Lunch
  • Begin Recording Manual Lunch
  • Waive Manual Lunch
• Lunchtime Countdown: Auto-Resumes Work When Finished
• Return Early from Lunch
• Edit Lunch Time. View Missed and Upcoming Lunches.
  • Record Missed Lunch
  • Edit Lunch End Time
• Short Lunch Audit Rule

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English — Record your lunch break in the Fieldclix mobile application.

Español — Graba tu pausa para comer en la aplicación móvil Fieldclix.

Manual Lunch Vs. Auto-Deducted Lunch

Manual Lunch records Employee’s Start of Lunch. This is usually configured in states with specific break rules (such as US California).

Auto-Deducted Lunch removes Time Automatically – Take Your Lunch!

In most companies, manual lunch does not apply: It is assumed you have taken your allowed lunch time. You are given this time for your benefit: Take advantage of it.

Manual Lunch Requirement and Required Duration Vary by Company

If manual lunch is allowed at your company and for you, a default Lunch settings are set according to your company policies.

Lunch settings are specified for an Employee category or individually for each Employee in Time Keeping Configuration.

These settings include: 

• Lunch duration. This length is typically 30 or 60 minutes, but can be different. 
• Allow to waive lunch.
• Stop Lunch earlier.
• Auto ClockIn after Lunch Duration.

Read about TK Configuration here.

Take/Waive Manual Lunch

Log-into the FCX App and open TK to take or waive a lunch.

If manual lunch is allowed for you, you will see a yellow-orange button on the Clocked-In screen called “Lunch.”

Tap “Lunch” to record or waive your lunch.

Begin Recording Manual Lunch

Tap “Lunch” on the Clocked-In screen in the App to take or waive a lunch.

Tap “Start Lunch” to begin recording a lunch. 

Select a required Lunch duration, if it is configured for you.

The lunch countdown will start, and a device notification will show that the lunch has started. 

When you log back into the FCX App TK screen after the lunch has started, you can see how much time is left. You will also receive a push notification when the lunch is over.

Waive Manual Lunch

Waive Lunch option is available according to TK configuration. Click to Waive Lunch and provide explaining comments. 

There are no restrictions of how many times you can waive lunch. You can start lunch if it is available to you, even if you sent a note about waiving lunch earlier.

Lunchtime Countdown: Auto-Resumes Work When Finished

You do not have to manually end your lunch if automatically clock in after lunch duration is on your TK configuration. If you start a lunch, but take no action to end it, recording of regular work time will resume at the end of the default lunch-length. It is assumed, if you did not end the lunch early, that you were allowed and took the entire lunch-length.

Return Early from Lunch

If TK configuration is set to “Allow Lunch early ClockIn”, you can end lunch and resume recording regular time before the countdown timer is finished.

To return early from lunch, log-into FCX App TK Lunch Started screen and tap “Stop Lunch.”

The Lunch-Length Countdown ends, a Device Notification states that the lunch is finished manually.

Edit Lunch Time. View Missed and Upcoming Lunches.

You can edit your lunch start and end time, view and edit your missed lunches in the mobile app if you have been assigned the “Lunch Adjustments Allowed” mobile role.

Record Missed Lunch

Missed Lunches – any unrecorded meal breaks you are required to take from your last lunch to the current time.

There are several ways to record missed lunches.

1. Select a missed lunch from the list (determines start time) → select a duration from the available ones (lunch end time) → tap the Add Lunch button.

2. Or set your own lunch start time. Near the pencil icon, you can see the lunch period based on the current time and the selected duration period. Click the pencil icon → correct the start time → select the duration (automatically selected if there is only one option) → tap the Add Lunch button.

Upcoming Lunch – a reminder of upcoming lunch breaks that you need to record in the app. This can be seen by any mobile app user who has a lunch schedule configured for them.

Edit Lunch End Time

If you've been assigned the “Lunch Adjustments Allowed” mobile role, you can edit the lunch end time.

For employees who are allowed to return from lunch early, the Stop button will always be active.  For others, the Stop Lunch button will not be available until the lunch period is over.

Click on Stop Lunch when available → click on the pencil icon → adjust the end time  → click on the Stop Lunch.

Short Lunch Audit Rule

Your company may be concerned about Employees not being allowed and taking their minimum lunch length.

Short lunches may be trigger an FCX TK Audit Exception and be flagged for review.